THE PAN-PRESBYTERIAN COUNCIL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 7081, 28 July 1884, Page 6

THE PAN-PRESBYTERIAN COUNCIL.

The. Presbyterian Council in session in JBelfast, Juns 27, devoted part of the dny to missionary matters. Ministers from various reformed ehnrehes an the Continent spoke of the feeling ia favour of the cause, and expressed the hope that tho Conference would meet in Paris before many years. After Dr. Breed had presented his report the Alliance adapted a resolution that the Council was specially gratified at it" contents, »nd then approved the efforts made to raise £5000 in behalf of the anciiot Moravian and Bohemian Churches. The Onncil heard with lively: satisfaction the *3atemftsts of tho condition of the churches of Enrope and Am erics, and asked, ia their beUalT, for the general support prayers of the stronger churches of the Alliance. At the session of July Ist Professor Jean Monod presided. He ! represented the Reformed Church of Franee. The application of the Free Evangelical Church of Geneva for admission into the alliance granted. James Croil, of Montreal, wad a report on eldership, which was dismissed. In the afternoon the members of the Council engaged in a trip on Belfaat Lough. At the evening session Darby of the CninWljJid Pfßiby tdnAn Chnrch of JuDflnci, presided, and papers were read on Sabbath schools, also on temperanoe in Great Britain and America. The latter subject was lengthily discussed. - The Council oonoluded its work on Wednesday, July 2, and adjourned to meet in London in 1886,